Abstract
Computer simulations suggest that antimicrobial lipopepides (AMLPs) clump into micelles, rather than act individually when they target microbial cells, according to biophysicist Alan Grossfield at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) in Rochester, N.Y., and his collaborators. This insight about the AMLP binding mechanism could help to improve the design and function of this emerging class of synthetic antibacterial compounds, he says. Details appeared August 2015 in Biophysical Journal (doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2015.07.011).
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